My partners and I have been around the block w/ some Turkish hackers in the past and even involved the FBI once during a pretty persistent onslaught and I walked away from that experience pretty impressed with their hacking talents. Defacing websites and planting rootkits on commercial servers is one thing but hacking into anything […]
33 Twitter Accounts Hacked
Update: 01/05/09: CNN has posted a little more information regarding this breach on their website, here’s a link. What I am wondering is what in the world do you do w/ a Twitter account once you hack it? It just doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me, I guess I just don’t see […]
#phishingalert Attack Underway!
Over the past 20 or 30 minutes this evening I have seen a lot of tweets reporting a phishing attack that is apparently running rampant on Twitter’s social networking. If you get a Twitter direct message today reading: “check out this funny blog about you”, don’t do it. The link leads to a fake Twitter […]
Exploit Alerts from Google
Today I was waiting around for a meeting to get started and pulled up Google’s blog to read about their earnings report that was posted yesterday and saw where they had expanded their Webmaster Tools to include XSS Exploit notifications. This is a great idea in my opinion! My business partners and I were in […]
Ayatollah’s Website Hacked
It looks like international website defacing is on the rise, I have heard several reports over the past few days of international websites being defaced, most of these were religiously oriented sites. On CNN tonight I found out that the Web site of Iraq’s most influential Shiite cleric was hacked Friday, with the attackers’ messages […]
Governor Palin’s E-Mail Hack
See Added Notes Below: There were two things that shocked me about Sarah Palin’s email account being hacked, the first was the obvious, that someone would do something so bold and absolutely crazy, ha. The other thing that really shocked me was that the Governor of a state would actually have a Yahoo email account, […]